Dear Editor – To add to the letter of mine you published in your newspaper last week on the same subject, I should like to mention that in recent days the Fiji Police seized more cocaine with an estimated value of about $US15 million from an island in the Lau group.

It was reported in the Fiji Times that the Fijian Customs Service, acting on a tip-off, found 30 blocks of cocaine with a combined weight of 40 kilograms.

This latest seizure come after a week when Fiji authorities had also seized $US15 million worth of cocaine and ecstacy from a yacht at Denarau, along with guns, cash and ammunition.

Dear Editor – This is a common sentiment often advertised during election periods that advocate the roles of elected members of parliament.

The major roles and obligation of MPs voted into parliament is to make appropriated legislations that helped address common issues that affect the lives of the people in the nation.

They represent the voice of the people and must be proactive and voiceful in parliament during debating, scrutinizing and making changes within our parliament.

The nation currently needs to change some of the old colonial laws that still exist in the productive resources government line ministries such as the forestry, fisheries, agriculture, lands and mining that are already expired, non-relevant and may not helpful towards the economic resources beneficiaries of this nation.

And so the nation is in a critical need for proactive and voiceful MPs to make changes towards productive regulations and legislations, especially in our resource sectors that safeguard our natural resources from unsustainable and over exploitation usages by the acute incoming of the foreigners that has been experienced today

Solomon Islands is 40 years old after gaining independence in 1978. We are now a matured age nation that should now has its owned well designed and strong legislations in its resource sectors that protect its natural resources for its people future benefits and prosperity.

While the foreigners who have nothing in their homelands have come and hugely benefit themselves harvesting our natural resources at an unsustainable and destructive manner with little or no benefits at all under the current national legislations that govern our resources sector without any changes done by our MPs does not make sense and is so very abusive towards the rights of the people from gaining maximum benefits out of their resources.

It only reflects poorly on the elected MPs who form governments that fail to perform their roles and obligation mandated by the voters and citizens of this nation.

The most MPs elected into parliament do not have great concern for the welfare of the nation but are there for their own hidden agenda.

They become voiceless, visionless, non-knowledgeable and proactive when debating important legislations that are essential towards the future prosperity of the nation.

If this nation continues with such leadership, our natural resources will be depleting at the fastest rate with little or no benefits to the locals in years to come.

This is a very sad situation for this beloved nation.

The 2019 national election is coming nearer and the nation is in great need for change in legislative leadership that has new height of visionary level that has political will venturing into manipulating the legislatives that help towards benefiting the nation.

Those MPs who wish to contest 2019 national election must prepare to face the challenges in leaderships to acquire changes needed by the people.

The nation no longer wants to entertain voiceless, visionless non-knowledgeable and sleeping MPs in the parliament house who only wish to benefit from RCDF and other government funds to build their own wealth at the expenses of the poor voters of this nation.

This nation needs very constructive MPs who should have vision towards manipulating the usages of our abundance natural resources to benefit the nation or else we will be continuing slaving in our own land under the leadership that has no visions for the nation in many years to come.

The establishment of strong and vibrant legislative that govern the nation’s resources is important for the future prosperity of our children.

And so electing the right leaders is the way forwards for this nation.

Dear Editor – I was one of the year 2017 recruited teachers who teach under Choiseul Education Authority as probationer until to date.

As a probationer teacher, it is very important to have consultation with Education Authority (EA) such as Chief education officer to endow with further information about why he extended my probationer for another year (2018) as stated to our current teachers teaching posting.

Even there were no official notifications from his office in order for me to identify my strengths and weaknesses of why I was still to be extending as probationer. The gigantic problem here is that, “who is Choiseul Education Authority, Mr Chief Education officer?” From the very beginning of this year until now I am still confused as to who is the chief education officer for Choiseul EA.

Along the way I searching but could not find him in his office, I just looked for an empty chair and table at all times.As you imagine, I get there every fortnight and even some school trips but could not find him in his office during official hours. Some officers, teachers and the public said that he was going to Honiara, driving his own outboard motor on hiring, meet with his relatives at market or gabbling place and always living office at 9:30 am to 10 am.

This attitude and behaviour is what we called the practise of absenteeism, as a result of doing nothing in the office and also causing gab to new probationer teachers could not identify who you are and how many colours you have as the reason of why you used to be imperceptible in your office.

Please Chief education officer if you are interested to do your private business or don’t understand your responsibilities then it’s very simple, just vacate the office position and let somebody who respects this job to sit there and also do teachers expectation.

Your administration is unreliable to us teachers as we teach under your umbrella.

However, what I have been experiencing during teaching under Choiseul education authority for two years now is NO satisfaction, NO promoting of teachers, as a result NO benefit out of, or to the other hands Mr Chief Education officer is not reliable to me as a teacher.

Teachers are probationers for more than six years, even extended to ten years.

The head teacher and principal in the schools were waiting for his advice before they can do appraisal for their probationers but he explained to be extended.

It is typed and very clear into the teachers teaching posting document.

What about the Ministry of Education(SIG)? Why are you employing such officer who does work below the expectation of his position responsibilities?

I tell the truth that he is an unreliable officer.

Choiseul education authority needs to be audited and dothe whole assessment of office administration and management.

Some of his approaches down here are unprofessional and ignoring of office manners.

He treated this office as his own private business and the teachers are his labourers.

Message to those teachers who will graduate next year in 2019, your advice is stop wishing and dreaming to do your teaching probationer under Choiseul Education Authority until current Chief education officer is changed.

This is an ethical issue which was needed to be considered by the upper ministry or who is responsible.

To all teachers who teach under Choiseul Education authority, there was legal procedure to handle such case, why don’t you get on your feet and do something to address this unreliable administration?

Or are will going to keep complaining until the cows come home?

So I urge: vacate this position to allow people who understand this job to take up the responsibilities and address teachers concerns in order to develop and improve the education system in Choiseul.

Dear Editor – In response to A.M.Junia’s article titled Solomon Power & Brazil which appeared on yesterday’s letters to the editor, Solomon Power clarifies that the unplanned power outage was unfortunately caused by a member of the public’s vehicle hitting a power pole along the Tandai Highway, causing power black out to the whole of Honiara.

Except for the White River areas where power was restored at 3pm, the rest of Honiara had its power restored in 30 minutes.

Solomon Power Lines team were straight onto the task in identifying the fault and had the power pole replaced so that power can be restored to the city.

It is unfair to accuse Solomon Power of venting its frustration on the supporters of Belguimin the letter, especially when our costly assets are unnecessarily damaged by disorderly public behavior.

The least one can do is thank Solomon Power for keeping the lights on with so many national events happening in our capital over the week.

Dear Editor – Last week I wrote to your newspaper expressing my appreciation of the fact that a fresh start seems to have been made in making and fitting prosthetic limbs to the long waiting list of ex-NRH patients that previously had undergone amputations at the hospital as a consequence of suffering from advanced diabetes or from injuries.

I thought I would share with you the heart-warming story I came across in the international press about an 8 year old Syrian child who had been born without legs.

Maya, the little girl, had been seen crying in a camp for displaced persons in Syria's north western Idlib province trying to walk around on a contraption her father had made from tuna fish cans, plastic tubing and fabric.

Her story was highlighted on social media and caught the attention of a Turkish prosthetics specialist who arranged, last week, for the child to be fitted with two prosthetic legs at a humanitarian clinic in Istabul.

The homemade prosthetics had allowed her to move about more easily, and helped her learn how to balance, shortening a two-week process to a single day when she was fitted with her new legs.

I really do hope the fresh efforts to make and custom fit prosthetic limbs to the 400 or so awaiting them in the Solomon Islands will gather pace and allow them, like Maya, overcome their walking disabilities very soon.

Dear Editor - I wish to refer to the second quarter final match between Belgium and Brazil on the morning of 7th July, 2018.

When Belgium leads Brazil by 2 goals to nil, during the second half, Solomon Power vented its frustration on the supporters of Belgium by going blackout throughout Honiara.

Are the Solomon Power workers at liberty to fiddle around with power supply, each time their team loses? This is stupidity of a new kind: this is especially so, given the fact that Brazil contributed virtually nothing to salvage Solomon Power of its past financial woes so that this favour can be entertained.

I would like to call on the Management of Solomon Power to investigate whether or not this incident was intentional or technical.

Dear Editor - Apparently Solomon Islands is a sovereign state but actually Iwould refer to it as “the Pacific” within the Pacific Ocean.

Unlike most Pacific Nations, where its people are but only one racial group, Solomon Island is home to most all the racial groups that had inhabited Pacific Ocean. In Solomon Islands you can find Melanesians, Polynesians and Micronesians.

I am not an anthropologist or a social scientist but on mere observations one can tell the “variety” of Melanesians, Polynesians and Micronesians of the Solomon Islands consists of or spans the entire spectrum of Pacific inhabitants from Tahiti to New Zealand in the south, to Guam and Federated State of Micronesia up north, to Papua New Guinea and Australia to the east.

Solomon Islands to me is indeed “the Pacific”in terms of her inhabitants. Her racial makeup, diversities and varieties are second to no other countries of the Pacific Ocean. The hosting of the South Pacific Games in 2023 therefore will be a unique Occasion just as the 2010 Festival of Pacific Arts (FOPA) in 2010.

The winning of the bid to host this biggest South Pacific Sporting event by Solomon Islands in the Republic of Vanuatu this year was not a mistake and one which DCCG can be remembered for a long time if its hosting is successful and of course it will successful.

The Pacific will once more will come to our Pacific Solomon Islands the Happy Isles in 2023 come the South Pacific Games.Must we not start preparing now or wait for the last minute as we are known for?

Dear Editor – For the last 40 years we have been living under the design of the crocodile and shark decorated with our logo to lead is to serve. Nafu of two fala nao, can we replace them with some friendly ones?

Turtle and kurukuru hao?

Mr Designer these two bosses are killers.

They respect no one in their actions, friend to none and enemy to all is what they are good at.